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One of the most interesting parts of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, Inception, allows small focused startups to pitch their ideas in a Shark Tank-like atmosphere to compete for a significant cash prize. Two of the more compelling solutions were presented by companies run by women this year. However, the big news was a company that was well along the way to creating an electronic human/machine interface that has huge implications for prosthetics in the near term, and the singularity in the long term.TechNewsWorld

The System UI tuner has never really been a feature for the masses. It was a way of hiding experimental features from the majority of users — you had to long press the quick settings cog to activate it — while still letting the more inquisitive of us play around if we wished. In the early Oreo developer previews there were quite a few interesting things in there, but by DP3 it was reduced to just a couple of status bar and DND settings.

For as long as I can remember, each Samsung phone’s release has been accompanied by a DisplayMate test proclaiming this new Samsung phone’s screen to be the absolute best. Given just how good Samsung’s AMOLED panels are, we can certainly understand this, but it’s just interesting to see the same thing said every year. This time around, DisplayMate has awarded the Galaxy S9 an “Excellent A+” grade.

While the Galaxy S9/S9+ panels are physically the same size as those on the Galaxy S8/S8+, DisplayMate’s Dr.

Is Dropbox poised to be valued on public markets less than it’s valued on private ones? Depends on your point of comparison.

Dropbox on Friday disclosed reams of financial information in its S-1 filing as it prepares at long last to go public. The big question over the next few weeks — in advance of the company share price being set by bankers — is whether the company will meet its $ 10 billion valuation set during its last round of private financing in 2014.

The smaller question: Which company can we compare it to? Should we think about Dropbox in the way we think about Box, the publicly traded cloud-storage company? Or is it more like Atlassian, the successful workplace collaboration company that offers a more friendly point of comparison for Dropbox investors?

Dropbox said Friday that it booked $ 1.1 billion in revenue last year. If the best point of public-market comparison is Atlassian, which has a revenue multiple of about 15, then Dropbox could be valued at over $ 16 billion on public markets. If the point of comparison is Box, then Dropbox is staring at a downround IPO that would value the company at under $ 7 billion.

Dropbox, founded by Drew Houston in 2007, will be one of 2018’s marquee IPOs along with Spotify — both of which are expected to appear on public markets in the early spring. Several other high-flying Silicon Valley companies — from Uber to Airbnb — are no doubt watching closely how Dropbox performs as they mull when to time their own public offerings.

Dropbox’s IPO will be a windfall for a series of early investors; because the company took relatively small amount of outside capital, a few shareholders own unusually large percentages in the company. Houston, the CEO, owns about 25 percent of the company, according to the documents, and Sequoia Capital owns about another 25 percent.

Dropbox will also be the first IPO for Y Combinator, the accelerator program that has become a hallmark of Silicon Valley promise.

The company said it had over 500 million registered users, but only 11 million of them are paying. Average revenue per paying user was $ 112 in 2017, just a 1 percent increase over 2016. That’s a statistic that the company acknowledges it needs to improve.

“Our business depends on our ability to retain and upgrade paying users, and any decline in renewals or upgrades could adversely affect our future results of operations,” the company said in the filing when referring to one of its “risk factors.”

Still, the company lost $ 112 million last year — though that figure has been improving year over year. The company also impressively posted $ 305 million in free cash flow in 2017 — far better than Box, which had only a positive free cash flow of $ 6.3 million in its latest quarterly filing at the end of 2017.

Exact pricing on the shares will arrive in the upcoming weeks from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, who are leading this IPO.

Everyone already knows about iPhone’s major features like Animoji and Apple Pay. However, there are actually quite a few features buried within iOS that are basically hidden, or at the very least, not as well-known.

Some of these features work in the background automatically, but it’s useful to know how to enable or disable them. Other features are actually pretty handy if you do know about them. Use the Right Arrow to Browse 5 iPhone Settings You’ve Seen (But Don’t Know What They Mean).

Since its release (which wasn’t long ago), the Amazon Cloud Cam has sold for $ 119.99. You could get it for a little less if you bought multiple cameras at the same time, this is a match for the lowest price we’ve seen it hit. Grab one today for just $ 89.99, or maybe just go for two of them while you’re at it.

You have access to the last 24 hours of motion alert clips for free and the free Cloud Cam app will push notifications based on the settings you select. It has night vision, two-way audio and much more. Amazon offers a few different Cloud Cam Plans, starting at $ 6.99 a month or $ 69.99 a year and going up to $ 19.99 a month or $ 199.99 a year, depending on your needs.

Previous investigations into Mars have led to some remarkable discoveries, including exposed water ice and violent snowstorms, but to date, we’ve explored very little of our neighbor. The InSight mission aims to change that.

“We have yet to look inside of Mars. We have only seen less than one percent of Mars,” Sue Smrekar, deputy principal investigator of the InSight mission, told CNBC. “What we are going to do now is look under the hood. We are going to look at the rest of Mars, the other 99.9 percent that we have never seen before.”

An Informative Checkup

According to the InSight mission overview, the lander will study the size, thickness, density, and overall structure of Mars’s core, mantle, and crust. It will also measure the rate at which heat escapes the planet.

A solar array will ensure InSight collects and stores enough solar energy to power its many instruments, some of which Bruce Banerdt, the mission’s principal investigator, detailed in a NASA news release.

“We’ll study [Mars’s] pulse by ‘listening’ for marsquakes with a seismometer. We’ll take its temperature with a heat probe. And we’ll check its reflexes with a radio experiment,” said Banerdt. “Think of InSight as Mars’s first health checkup in more than 4.5 billion years.”

InSight’s objectives don’t end there. Recent studies have found evidence of water near the planet’s equator and potentially trapped in rocks. InSight has been tasked with locating ice and confirming whether or not liquid water flows beneath Mars’s surface. Any new information regarding water on Mars will be invaluable to attempts to establish habitats or colonize the planet.

Beyond teaching us about Mars, the InSight mission is expected to help us better understand how our own planet formed. Unlike Venus, Mercury, or the Moon, Mars is large enough to have undergone the same processes that shaped the Earth’s formation nearly 4 billion years ago, but small enough to still show signs of those processes.

By exploring Mars with InSight, we’ll learn more about our planet’s past and how to prepare for our species’ off-world future.

Now that Apple has introduced support for wireless charging, manufacturers are clamoring to create new chargers. I couldn’t cover all of the wireless chargers that made their debut out in Las Vegas during CES, but here are my favorites that will be shipping soon…. Read the rest of this post here

You’ve introduced yourself to the wonderful world of the iPad, but you need more information as to how to go about using your device efficiently. There is a wealth of information out there, and you need to keep reading in order to better understand what uses you can find with your iPad. It’s a new world out there!

Buying an iPad is a great way to increase any kind of company that you have. It is a great way to bring in new business because it shows that your company is modern and progressive. If you are looking for this kind of client, then pick up an iPad.

Before you purchase an iPad, you should take the time to make a list of the features you need and decide what kind of storage size you want. There are different models of iPads available and there is no point in spending money on features you are never going to use.

Buy a good-quality case and screen protector for your iPad. You probably paid a lot of money for your iPad, so you need to ensure that you keep it protected against damage. A good-quality case will protect your iPad from minor accidental falls, while a screen protector will stop the screen from getting scratched.

To create folders on an iPad is easy. Simply hold your finger over an application icon until it starts jiggling. Once it starts jiggling, you simply drag and drop it on another application icon. The iPad names the application at the time it is made; however, you can rename the folder to your liking.

Control what notifications you see. Tired of every app bothering you with notifications, causing you to miss important ones? Head to the Notifications section of your Settings menu. Here you can determine which of your apps are allowed to send you pop up notifications and which ones cannot. This can put a halt to noisy apps and make it easier to see your important messages.

Open new webpages using a new tab to keep your current webpage open. If you are using Safari, tap and hold down the link and wait until a menu pops up. Here, you can choose to open the link in a tab.

A neat feature in Safari on the iPad is the quick scroll. Many people do not know about this and waste time scrolling by hand up the page to get back to the beginning. All you have to do to get back to the top of any page is to tap on the title window at the top.

If you have young children who will be using your iPad, you might want to restrict their access to mature content. Even by accident, it is easy for a child to access an inappropriate website unless you do this. Simply go to your settings, and then click on general. There you will find “enable restrictions.” Tap on this and you will find a list of restrictions that you can select from.

You do not have to save documents to your iPad to share them. Access them via the Internet and open your share menu. You will then have access to a list of all the documents you opened. Tap on the document you want to share. If you want to share an entire page, you will be able to send it as a Word document or as a PDF.

Put a screen protector on your iPad. It does not interfere with the visibility of the display. The screen protector protects your iPad from oils and dirt from your fingers. It is great way to prevent your screen from permanent scratches. If the protector is scratched, it can be easily replace.

You can find a free downloadable version of the user guide for the iPad. Go to Apple’s website and find the PDF version of the guide. You can then download and print it. It is also available as an iBook that can be downloaded directly to your iPad. Use it to assist you in learning how to fully operate your iPad.

You may not have realized it, but you can move your application icons anywhere on the screen that you want. To do so, simply hold the icon for one second and when it pops up you can move it where you want. This is also the way to delete an application.

When you’re losing weight, the iPad can be a great tool. There are apps to help you track your progress, keep a diet diary or even receive nutritional advice. You can search the web to find how many calories are in the items you’re eating, or take photos of clothing you want to buy when you fit into the items, which makes for great motivation.

You can take a screenshot of your iPad in a very simple one-step process. Hold down on your home button as well as the power button at the same time. Release both after about one second. You should hear a camera sound go off, and your screen should go white. This means that a screenshot was taken, and it will be stored in your photos’ section.

Does the Google search on your iPad leave you dissatisfied? It’s easy to change to another search engine. Select Search Engine under the Safari tab of Settings. You will have a list of search engines to choose from. You’ll get the option of choosing between Bing, Yahoo, and Google.

Spotlight searches can be easily restricted on an iPad. Start by swiping left to bring up Spotlight. This search is set up by default to look at everything, which also includes events, apps, podcasts, and songs on your iPod. It can be restricted to not include these categories by going to Settings, General, and Spotlight Search.

Hopefully now you know more about how to use your iPad and what you want to use it for. There are unlimited opportunities, from gaming to business and more, and you just have to know where to look. Continue to learn more information, and make your iPad work for you.